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Monthly Weather Bulletin

JULY 2010

1. Summary 

In July 2010 the country was still experiencing the Southwest Monsoon season. Typically, the month of July and August are the month that is relatively quite dry in Malaysia. However, in July 2010, Malaysia has experienced a generally wet weather with rainfall on the average and above average. However, several parts of the peninsula and the eastern Sabah had received dry weather conditions with below average rainfall. Similarly, the evaporation rate recorded was low in some areas. While the temperature and the amount of solar radiation was recorded above the long term average in most areas.

2. Rainfall

In peninsula, wet weather still continues with more areas had received rainfall 20% to 100% above its monthly average. Only a few areas around the coast of Perak, Malacca, East Johor and Terengganu had received rainfall of 20% to 50% below average monthly rainfall.

        In Sarawak, all division had also experienced a wet weather with rainfall of 80% to 120% above its monthly average. The highest rainfall of July 2010 was recorded in Kapit with the reading of 601.2 mm. Similarly, in Sabah and Federal Territory of Labuan, almost all parts have been experiencing wet weather, with rainfall ranging from 30% to 50% more than the average monthly exception of Tawau and Sandakan. Tawau Division received a total rainfall of 40% below average, while the Sandakan Division received a total rainfall of 70% below its monthly average.

Peninsula recorded the number of rainy days ranged from 8 (recorded at the Bayan Lepas Meteorological Station) to 23 days (recorded at the Senai Meteorological Station). While Sabah and Federal Territory of Labuan received the number of rainy days ranged from 15 (recorded at the Sandakan Meteorological Station) to 25 days (recorded at the Kota Kinabalu Meteorological Station) meanwhile for Sarawak, the number of rainy days ranged from 19 (recorded at the Sibu Meteorological Station) to 24 days (recorded at the Bintulu Meteorological Station).

    Based on the classification scheme, there were 11 stations recorded much above average rainfall, 3 stations recorded above average rainfall and 13 stations recorded average rainfall. Meanwhile, there were 5 stations recorded below average rainfall and 1 station recorded much below average rainfall.

 

3. Temperature

In general, some parts of the country had recorded a relatively high temperature compared to the long-term temperature for July 2010. However, there were also some areas recorded lower temperatures than the monthly average. The mean temperature of the month over lowland areas varied from 26.1˚C (Kluang) to 28.5˚C (Subang). Subang had recorded the largest positive deviation of +1.4 ˚ C from normal.

The mean minimum temperature over lowland areas varied from 23.0˚C (Muadzam Shah) to 25.0˚C (Bayan Lepas and Subang). The lowest temperature recorded was in Kluang with the reading of 21.4 ˚ C.

    The mean maximum temperature over lowland areas varied from 30.7˚C (Miri) to 33.6˚C (Subang). The highest temperature recorded was 35.3˚C at Subang.

    While a single station for high altitude stations which was Cameron Highlands had recorded temperatures ranged from 14.5˚C to 24.5˚C with a mean temperature of 17.9˚C.

 

4. Solar Radiation

This month, there were only eight stations recorded solar radiation data. From the information obtained, most places had received amount of solar radiation higher than its monthly average. The daily mean values of solar radiation varied from 10.78 MJm² (Senai) to 17.84 MJm-2  (Ipoh). The largest positive and negative deviations from normal were +1.96 MJm-2 (Subang) and -3.34 MJm-2 (Senai).

5. Evaporation

 

The country had received relatively below than normal evaporation rate this month. The mean daily evaporation rates over the lowland areas ranged from 2.3 mm/day (Kuala Terengganu Climatological Station) to 4.6 mm/day (Kuala Terengganu, Kudat and Labuan). The largest positive deviation was +0.4 mm/day (Kuala Terengganu and Kluang) while the largest negative deviation was -1.4 mm/day (Kuala Terengganu Climatological Station).

    The mean daily evaporation rate in Cameron Highlands was 2.3 mm/day with deviation of 0.3 mm/day.

 

 

 

Figures :

FIGURE 1 : Rainfall Map for Peninsular Malaysia
FIGURE 2 : Rainfall Map for Sabah and Sarawak

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